A Parents' ABC of the Autism Spectrum 9781784504359, 1784504351

Covering everything from Anxiety to Fragile-X Syndrome, author Stephen Heydt, an experienced clinical psychologist, prov

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A Parents' ABC of the Autism Spectrum
 9781784504359, 1784504351

Table of contents :
A Parents' ABC of the Autism Spectrum by Stephen Heydt
For Parents
Autism Spectrum Disorder including Asperger's (ASD for short)
A
Animals
Anxiety (see also Fight-flight)
Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) (see also Early intervention, EIBI)
Assessments
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Awareness and self‑awareness --
see Insight
B
Behaviour
Bolting
Breathing
Bullying
C
Calm
Care
Celebration
Clothes
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy --
see Therapies
Communication
Comorbidity
Creativity and conceptual blindness
D
Death
Decisions (see also Fluid reasoning) Defecating (involuntary, unintentional, voluntary, encopresis, faecal incontinence) (see also Toileting)Depression
Development
Distress (see also Anxiety and Calm)
E
Early intervention (EIBI)
Echolalia
Emotions and regulation
Empathy
Encopresis --
see Defecating and Toileting
Enuresis --
see Urinating and Toileting
Executive function
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Eye contact
F
Facial blindness
Faecal smearing and other unwanted behaviour
Fight-flight (and freeze) (see also Anxiety)
Film (social skills development technique) --
see Silent films
Fluid reasoning
Food. Friends and friendshipG
Gait (see also Motor skills)
Gender
Gestures (Repetitive) (see also Stereotypies)
Girls
H
Harm (self and other)
Hearing (see also Language and Speech)
Humour
I
Identity (and how it is developed)
Idiosyncrasies (see also Quirky)
Impulsivity
Inappropriateness
Inflexibility
Insight
Intelligence and IQ
J
Jumping, hopping or toe‑walking (see also Gait)
L
Labels --
diagnostic (see also Assessments)
Language (see also Speech and Hearing)
Learning
Lying
M
Medication
Meditation and mindfulness
Meltdowns
Memory
Moods
Motor skills. Mutism --
see Selective mutismN
Naughty
Neurological
O
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Organisation
P
Pain
Parenting
Perfectionism (see also OCD)
Perseverative --
see Stereotypies
Play (including imaginative and rough-and-tumble)
Procrastination
Professionals
Q
Questioning (for children)
Questioning (for parents)
Quirky (see also Idiosyncrasies)
R
Reading
Refusal
Regression
Reinforcement
Repetitive --
see Stereotypies
Restraining
Rituals
Routines
S
School
Selective mutism
Self-care --
see Care
Self-harm --
see Harm and Pain
Self-stimulatory --
see Stereotypies. Sensory sensitivities (see also Pain)Silent films
Sleep
Social skills
Social StoriesTM
Speech (see also Language)
Special interests
Stereotypies
Synaesthesia --
see Sensory sensitivities
T
Technology (assistive and entertainment)
Theory of Mind
Therapies
Tics
Toileting
Token reward systems
Transitions
U
Understanding
Unusual (see also Idiosyncrasies and Quirky)
Urinating (involuntary urination, urinary incontinence, enuresis) (see also Toileting and Defecating)
V
Victory --
see Celebration
W
Writing
X
Fragile-X Syndrome (FXS)
Y
Why not?
Z
Zyzzyva
Notes.

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